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Yes that truck is a jewel! You can’t beat the older trucks. Especially 01 Chevy’s I bet the 8.1 is a beast. And the Allison is tough. I am a mechanic with the US government and that Allison is in the M1 Abrams tank and it’s heavy duty for sure. Nice setup y’all have. And finding things that have been took care of is definitely a find of a lifetime.

Who cares why you pick this camper

I'm currently attempting to decide between a van, trailer, or truck camper. It's so hard!

As soon as she compared the cost of a professionally built out van to a new truck camper she lost me. The truck camper needs a truck! What does that cost? $75,000? Now the cost of these 2 different "homes" isn't so different. Vans are so popular because they get good gas mileage. If you can live with 8 MPG then get a school bus for even more room to move than a truck camper.

What the fuck am I doing wrong? Here I have to live and work in the same area.

Rt 101 in VT is known as a challenging motorbike ride, sports car drivers lke it too. watch for radar.

Good info. Oh I now want to drive the Dalton Hw. Glad you mentioned The Big Ranch river road. It's beautiful and no much known.

Class B motorhomes can be had for <$100K, brand new with bathroom, so they belong in the conversation too. All that said, my current dreams are for a 4x4 truck with camper. :)

This was pretty informative. Thank you!

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Have you driven any of these roads? Which scenic drives are your favorites? 😍

Considering getting one of these used. Any issues with smell having the toilet so close to the bed?

I find your videos very helpful, thank you. I subscribed, keep up the good work. I see your channel growing, best of luck. Thanks.

Damn that sucks

Thanks for the video I like the light weight pop up truck campers.

Cool stuff guys!! My sunlight cliff 600 rooftop ed (buscamper) is coming next month, finally! Looks like you guys doing good, i miss you guys and the little furball. You still in Maine a lot? Spent a few weeks in virginia, alexandria and maryland for work and fun! And performed at a meditation center festival!

There are hard sided pop ups, with a bathroom/shower and electric or hydraulic lifters.

Nice video but I kept getting distracted by the fact she looks like Summer Glau. Now I wants a road trip with Terminator Cameron.

You drive what you need,,or what you like,,I love my van,,I'll never trade it for a pickup,,Also some city's don't allowed campers, they are considered a motorhome,,in Huntington Beach California is a 275 dll ticket,,

One advantage to a campervan is the ability to tow a trailer as well, so you could bring a spare car/motorcycle with you.

Thank you for mentioning the pressurized situation with the cassette toilets. No one ever mentions that.

Excellent points. Most of the advantages of a truck camper are the same for trailers. The biggest pro to camper vans is being able to drive away without going outside.

WoW, 8mpg, nearly fell over :) We get close to 40 UK mpg in our Fiat Ducato based MH with 9 speed auto gearbox. I do like the Truck Camper concept, but then would it make sense to have a caravan?

I absolutely loved my truck camper. Having the bed over the cab made it feel so much more spacious compared to my van. Although I bought it with the thought I would separate the camper from the truck, I never actually did in all the years I owned it. If it weren't for my health issues and the need for a vehicle without constant stair climbing, I would have kept the truck camper. The biggest advantage of the van for me is the ability to move from the front to the back without stepping outside. My wife doesn't come along on my trips. If she did, I would get a small trailer for her to stay in, so she wouldn't be disturbed when I get up early or stay out late for photography. If I were living in my vehicle full-time I may consider a truck & Camper, I would appreciate the flexibility of being able to detach the camper from the truck in case the truck needed major repairs. If you want a truck camper that does not leak (as bad) look at Northern Lite or Bigfoot.

Where do you buy a truck camper?

Separating the TC from truck is nice - only if it is important to you 4*4 is nice - only if it is important to you So it is ALL relative & YMMV. Your dime... I had a TC on a 4*4 f250. ( over a 1.5 years I slept in it for 30 days total - so I gave it a chance to prove itself) I now have a self built Transit van 250 for the last 7 years (I slept in it for 25 months to date- so NOT full time - not interested in full time only 3-5 month adventures) & I continue to modify and tweak it to make it just a little bit better - With Great results and it make me like it better. I hated the TC - 2 stars 👍I love the Van - 9 stars👍

Yah I travel in 20 ft camper trailer & couldn't imagine not having bathroom. Eaven walking to bathroom at campground would be annoying

Yes, truck camper has been one of the best decisions I’ve made.

Just found ur channel. Sorry to see this. I put signs on my cab window saying "Dogs are safe, Van is air conditioned, please don't break window." to give anyone who wants to break in, to think twice. I don't have dogs. lol It's good that yall didn't go to the apartment cuz y don't want to commit a crime yrslf or get hurt by whoever did it. Stay safe.

This is a good channel. Low view count is really surprising. Keep up the good work.

I've taken the Empire Builder from King St. Station a couple of times and I really enjoyed the ride to Chicago ... Just don't expect to make a connection in Chicago as Amtrak's long distance trains can be many hours behind schedule. After getting burned by Amtrak more than once I will most definitely book a room and spend a relaxing night in Chi-Town before moving on in the morning !! Also, if you're traveling with a friend I'd recommend getting the bedroom, it makes a huge difference. For solo travelers a Roomette is all you need 😹

What do you think? Truck camper or camper van? We always say, there is no perfect rig. Or is there?

Cra cra!

Imagine a camper that was entirely a bathroom 😁👍✌🍻

What do you guys think? Bathroom or toilet?

WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD YOU LEAVE YOUR TOOLS IN THE TRUCK?

By the way there are remote signal readers, organized gangs replete with vehicle seclusion & transportation to buyers infrastructure in place. From say a hundred yards away they can catch your code and replicate it.

I’ve never been averse to removing the front passenger seat, nor the back passenger seat, nor the trim plastic if necessary. I was into my wife’s new F 450 she had planned to transport RV’s with as a career for awhile, and removing \ storing those items keep them new and goes right back, later. The cooler RV drivers use hotels motels; the CDL drivers are accustomed to the essential need for a bunk out back sometimes. I would carpenter a flat & strong surface and bolt it to the floor, install an aluminum lockbox, beef up it’s lock mechanism (s) and pack things tightly in that. Your RV is impossible to secure due to it’s construction, so you must go with either dummy or real cameras.

Where???

Somebody saw your tools,,,Somebody that you know

Some of the most staunch conservatives are former liberals who have been robbed or burglarized.

Sorry to hear that your things got stolen. You have a GM truck (Chevy /GMC), when you activate the locks with the key fob it should set an alarm. Try this, roll a window down lock the doors with the fob. Reach through the open window, unlock the door and open it. The horn should start honking. Install a deadbolt on the camper and use it. If you feel your life is in danger use your bear spray. worry about the consequences later but make sure you are in fear of your life. The cops sure seem like they don't want to be bothered with helping you recover your stuff, that's sad.

Sorry for your loss. I hope sometime in the future we change our criminal revolving door court system to actually keep criminals in prison and off the streets.

You can park in the lobby or a police station in the center of a military base but if thieves want your stuff they're going to get it. The best you can do, and I don't recommend explosives, is not making yourself an easy target. In my case I see it as a thief is going to get my stuff and almost every working solution means I could go to jail like using a gun for home defense or setting traps, even non lethal ones. If I gotta give my stuff to a thief and risk my freedom then there will be one less thief and other thieves will be worried that the next one could do the same thing.

Your first mistake is being in California- not a good place anymore

To avoid being a victim stay out of shitty california, chicago, new york, baltimore.....

cops dont fingerprint for thefts they will literally do nothing in my experience. always get insurance with property coverage.

In East Chicago, if you don't have an alarm, you won't have a vehicle. Forget the stuff inside, they will either drive off in vehicle or strip the vehicle down to nothingness. OTOH, alarms have been known to go off just because a truck drove by or it got too cold. Alarms are way cheaper then what I suggest below. However, given the money, time and if the law supports it, I'd do the below also. Vehicles are the easiest thing to crack into. No key fob is going to help you here. So the only way to really make it safe is to keep all valuables with you when not on the road. Create a hidden cabinet behind a cabinet, such that you have to open the first cabinet, move a hidden locking mechanism, to get to the other cabinet, that still needs unlocking to get in. If a loo is put on a platform that easily moves out but doesn't move any further then out enough to use, they might not think that anything on the blocked side of that loo in back is anything important. You could always store TP in front of that blocked side. I'd put metal sheets behind all windows and install brackets that will hold 2x6 on top and on bottom, to keep the metal against the window in the camper and the back window of the cab. Keep nothing valuable in the cab itself. I'd be careful about using this while inside the vehicle camping for the night, for fire reasons. I'd want leave the best quick escape option open and use sensor alarms around the perimeter of your camp sight to warn of bears and intruders. Install industrial locks. You could check out tufloc official site to see if anything there makes sense Abloy is very high quality. I would check out lockpickinglawyer to see what he recommends, as he knows what works and what doesn't. Locking bags together does make it harder, but only if those bags are heavy and larger than the opening you need to get them out of. This is why locking the bags together, inside of a metal cabinet and locking the bags to the cabinet wall in back is best. Your bags also need to be made from ultra-high cut proof, slash proof fabric. Redneck version has you glueing 1 bag inside of another bag with chicken wire inbetween the bags, but this is cuttable, but will take them longer. You could also check out loctote or similar site for slash resistant bags. Nothing is really fool proof. The trick is to make it take too long for them to take it.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. CYA by doing sensible things-which you obviously didn't.

Sorry, but the logic doesn't compute. After all that, you're NOT going to add a wireless remote alarm to the truck camper(?) Why wouldn't you, especially when there are so many super simple and inexpensive wireless alarm systems available these days. You wouldn't necessarily need an alarm with wifi, but at least an alarm with a loud/ear-piercing siren would be a better deterrent than nothing at all, especially given how theft/crime is on the rise!